“When I’m making an image, I always have three priorities: first comes beauty, then innovation and in third place comes realism. If I have to sacrifice realism for the sake of the first two, I will and frequently do. But generally I try to obtain some kind of balance.”

“It has taught us much about character development. We want to know everything about the character, regardless of whether that conveys directly in the story. It has helped us flesh these characters out so much that they’ve become real to us. We’re seeing the world through their eyes”

“I have always had a sense of surrealism since my early drawing years. In high school we were working on a project and, of course, I was composing a surrealistic drawing and another student asked the teacher why he couldn’t do a surreal composition and I could. The teacher responded “When you have dozens of sketch pads filled with those types of drawings, like Frank does, thenI’ll let you.” My biggest inspiration as a young artist in the 1970’s was Salvador Dali.”

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